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COACHING STAFF<br />
GRANT McCASLAND<br />
STAFF<br />
Head Coach | 1st Season<br />
Baylor, 1999<br />
Grant McCasland was named the 15th head<br />
coach in Arkansas State’s history on March 16,<br />
2016.<br />
A 17-year coaching veteran, McCasland holds<br />
a 199-44 (.819) record as a head coach at the junior<br />
college and NCAA Division II levels.<br />
McCasland spent the last five seasons as an<br />
assistant coach at Baylor, helping lead the Bears<br />
to NCAA Tournament appearances in 2012,<br />
2014, 2015 and 2016. Prior to Baylor, he spent<br />
two seasons as the head coach at Midwestern<br />
State and led the program to back-to-back Elite<br />
Eight appearances in the NCAA Division II Tournament.<br />
McCasland also has head coaching<br />
experience at the junior college level, leading<br />
Midland College to the 2007 NJCAA national<br />
championship.<br />
Working on head coach Scott Drew’s staff at<br />
Baylor, McCasland helped the Bears average 26<br />
wins per year, posting a 125-56 record, including<br />
a 10-4 postseason mark. The Irving, Texas native<br />
helped Baylor rise to national prominence with<br />
five 20-win seasons, five postseason appearances,<br />
the Big 12’s first NIT championship and<br />
Baylor’s first postseason tournament title in its<br />
107-year history.<br />
In his final season at Baylor he helped lead<br />
the club to a program best third straight NCAA<br />
Tournament appearance. The Bears posted a 22-<br />
12 mark this season, playing 18 games against<br />
teams that appeared in the 2016 NCAA Tournament.<br />
During the 2014-15 season the Bears went<br />
24-10 and earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA<br />
Tournament, tying the best seed in program<br />
history and recorded the program’s first-ever<br />
back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances.<br />
It was the program’s seventh 20-win season in<br />
the previous eight years, accounting for all but<br />
three of the 20-win seasons in school history. A<br />
school-record seven of Baylor’s 24 wins came<br />
against top-25 ranked teams during the 2014-15<br />
campaign.<br />
Baylor became one of just 12 teams nationally<br />
to reach three Sweet 16s in a five-year span<br />
(2010-14) with a late seasons surge that saw the<br />
Bears reach the 2014 NCAA Tournament. The<br />
Bears advanced to the Big 12 Championship title<br />
game and posted 26 wins in the 2013-14 season.<br />
AT A GLANCE<br />
PERSONAL<br />
Birthdate: October 14<br />
Hometown: Irving, Texas<br />
High School: Irving HS<br />
College: Baylor, 1999 (B.S.) | Texas Tech, 2001 (M.S.)<br />
Family: Wife - Cece | Children - Amaris, Jett, Jersey, Beckett<br />
COACHING HISTORY<br />
1999-01: Texas Tech, Director of Operations<br />
2001-03: Northeastern JC, Assistant Coach<br />
2003-04: Midland College, Assistant Coach<br />
2004-09: Midland College, Head Coach<br />
2009-11: Midwestern State, Head Coach<br />
2011-16: Baylor, Assistant Coach<br />
2016-Present: Arkansas State, Head Coach<br />
POSTSEASON HISTORY<br />
2003-04: Midland College; NJCAA Semifinals<br />
2004-05: Midland College; NJCAA Elite Eight<br />
2005-06: Midland College; NJCAA Region 5 Final<br />
2006-07: Midland College; NJCAA National Champion<br />
2007-08: Midland College; NJCAA Region 5 Semifinals<br />
2008-09: Midland College; NJCAA Finals<br />
2009-10: Midwestern State; NCAA Division II Elite Eight<br />
2010-11: Midwestern State; NCAA Division II Elite Eight<br />
2011-12: Baylor; NCAA Elite Eight<br />
2012-13: Baylor; NIT Champion<br />
2013-14: Baylor; NCAA Sweet 16<br />
2014-15: Baylor; NCAA 1st Round<br />
2015-16: Baylor; NCAA 1st Round<br />
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS<br />
2003-04: Midland College; WJCAC Champions<br />
2007-08: Midland College; WJCAC Champions<br />
2008-09: Midland College; WJCAC Champions<br />
2009-10: Midwestern State; Lonestar Conference Champions<br />
PLAYING HISTORY<br />
1996-99: Baylor; Three-year letterwinner<br />
The 2012-13 season saw Baylor become the<br />
first Big 12 team to claim a NIT title. The Bears<br />
won five straight that culminated with a 20-point<br />
win over Iowa in the championship game. In his<br />
first season with the Bears (2011-12), McCasland<br />
helped the squad to a school-record 30 wins and<br />
an appearance in the NCAA Tournament South<br />
Region Final, the second in three seasons. Baylor<br />
was ranked throughout the season, a first in<br />
program history, reaching as high as No. 3 in the<br />
polls while not falling below 14th.<br />
Before his five-year stint at Baylor, McCasland<br />
spent two seasons as head coach at Midwestern<br />
State (Texas), posting a combined 56-12 mark. In<br />
the 2010-11 season, McCasland, the Lone Star<br />
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